lip p >3 Mwi~ J .rtv L | ■ A , y. /<*v f ¡X. TB| HIM MDIPEMT. „A. MARSOHALK, Be.. Sum*. lTMAE30HAlj 'ji.. Peanas as- SATURDAY MORKHrO, Bilton, Texas, I86S. Mr. Emtur:—If Mr John 8 Blair of 1 ECHa I And Col fHalley oí' Hulado, wllf permit their name* to be id aa caudlriatea tor County CommUaltoieta. they «U1 to eupporled by MAWY VOTERS. ~^s«í^rí£r?¡nsr Far Sheriff. TITR are authorlrail to auounco .lOtf BI8II0I' aa a « ciodiililolor Sheriff of Ball County, átthe nut August election. T1TE are authoriaoil to announce JOSEPH CATER " aa a candidate for Hherllf of Bell county at the next election. For clerk of County Court. £ are authorised to. announce THOU \tf TÜCKER a a candidato for dork of the County Court of Bell eounly, at the next elcclioa. For Treaauror. VtmtRS—I annouueo nivm'lf uh a candidato for the •Bee of Tit* vHUKKit of Hull County. I do not kco uny necessity in «raMing your limo and mino h.v running after you to tell you what 1 think are my cliiima to your suffrage , ...

I i i I r\ INDEPENDENT ?AM1LY PAPER-DEVOTED TÓTHE ADVANCEMENT or the AGRICULTURAL, MECHANICAL AND OTHER INTERESTS OP THE DISTRICT GENERALLY, BELL COUNTY f. VOL. 3. BELTON, BELL COUNTY, TEXAS, JULY 17,1858. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A. Z. RUMSEY, TEXAS lOJilCIILTVlU WAREHOUSE UOUbTON, TKX*i>. The Airlc.l ™ WaMkmM W IIITOCMD WllK *■• fOLLOWl AMI UK MOWERS AND REAPERS, —~.rtln ai<d auiM mwi t and tntuiou, L.Ter m< EadlMa Chala Haise Power*, □Ba aoaoaer FANNING MILLO, CORN RHELLKHfl, CORN KILLS, PLOWS, BUB-BOIL, PLOWS, HAIIROWS ONE A TWO-HOUSE CULTIVATORS, «ato DRILLS, 9UI< NUU, FEED CUTT..118, ■•port of the Gold K¡spe4ltloa. hospitality. We had every thing 1 that was good, well fixed, with the best kind of wine. You will Bee#n ray last that Lieut. Hare and his party came iu on the' evening of the 18th after having been gone thirteen days.—. Hare and his men' left the captain in the Sand Hills; every ono of l||s party ten in number shouldered their guns and started* a foot with no...

T r I Wi i THE BELTON INDEPENDEN T. lOrWe regret very much tliatwe overlooked tbo following article rel- ative to the celebration of the 4th,1 Written for lul keek by the gentle- man who kindly ofiiciuted for us iu our absence. Better luto thuu never, however, and here it is: Tke I' !•■(«. On Saturday morning at 8 'oclock the children of Helton began to as- semblo-at the church, and continued so to do until they were tlrick ah bees in a swarm. Quito a number of gentlemen and ladies were also present at the church, but owing the neat of the ninrniug they prefcrod not to march in procession to 'the grove. J. B. Hardeman Esq., acted as marshal and rendered tlio company very efficient service. lie formed the procession on the church grounds having it headed by a very neat ban- ner given the actio >1 by the Lidien id' Helton. At the word the procession moved and marched through town on the wen tern aide id' the square, thence due east alonjr the soiüli aide of the square, continuing o...

*¡* THE BELT ON INDEPENDENT. m C011UK1C ATIUN. For th* Beltoa II*. Editok:—In the ,Uat number of your paper an article appean>d over the signature of "Leon/* find' ing fault with Belton for not doing •ome things and for some other things that the writer imagine «he w doing, fie aays he came to town to enter the Belton Lyceum, as it had been spoken of in the paper, and an invitation extending to thoso living in the country who might have a desire so to do. But .Leon imagines it is a Know Nothing triotf and resolves to stand from under,— When he sees the doors of a room •hut, he concludes at once that Sam is the inmate and Unrlt is the door-keeper. We wish to disabuse his mind, and assure him if lie will knock it shall be opened unto him, and he can enter and retire without •pitting pass words thro' the key hole, or weariug the skin from ofl his knuckles by signal raps. When we first saw che article, we supposed Leon had come to town as stated, aud on making inquiry found it would ...

4 ''«bi, -iif MIÉ R] bib -v ft fair freight we ata- and important altera* . snd ia now, without doubt, one ot the stanchest steamers in the Gulf, besides which it will pueh ¡UH of then, big or little, to •out-aail her. The accommodations are of the moat superior older, and all tfeeventy five peasengers can be -well provided and oared for. We wiah our interior frienda to bear theae facta in mind. There ia no further necessity, for the preaent *t least, of incurring extra eipenae by going to New Orleana for paaaa- gea, or.resorting to the tedious land route to Tajas. On her daya of de- Curture, the Faahioncan comforts- y provide for seventy-five persons ®nd safety land them at Galveston within thirty houra. We are quite sanguine aa to the complete aucceaa of the enterpriac and confidently ex* pect that by the begining of next season, another ateamer will be re- quired for the trade.—Mobile Mer- Tha removal of the artkMi of the National Gallery (which have occu- pied one of the madn ha...